ZENworks Application Virtualization Administration Guide

A virtual application is a virtual machine image pre-configured with all of the files, registry data, settings, components, runtimes, and other dependencies required for a specific application to execute immediately. virtual applications allow application publishers and IT administrators to significantly reduce the costs and complexity associated with development, setup, configuration, deployment, and maintenance of software applications. For example, a publisher of an application based on the Microsoft .NET Framework or Java runtime engine might create a virtual application combining the application with the required runtime engine. Using this virtual application, an end-user can run the application immediately, even if the user has not installed the required runtime engine, or has an incompatible runtime engine installed.